#sabbat vampire

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beatrix content

sketches of the happiest little preacher-killer in the Requiem. I'd say masquerade too, but she's Sabbat, lmao. Damn good at it, too!

[ brujah antitribu / daeva (kallisti bloodline ) ]

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Najat + Lavinia || Lavinia + Whit

some sketches while i work on refs. a trio of salubri antitribu (well, Najat is a warrior salubri turned antitribu ), with Whitney being embraced like... in the 90s??? maybe? i'm not sure. it's pretty recent compared to Lavinia, who was embraced in the Victorian era.

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sketch of the three defined characters of the unnamed sabbat pack me and @acheronarcanist have going on (i'm on the spot calling them the Garden Snakes, which makes 0 sense until you think about the implications of that in regards to one of them being named eden and is also the joke that Beatrix would think is funny) Eden on the left is a Lasombra and also the Pack Ductus. she isn't actually as leadership-forward as many ductus are, but that's ok because it works out for the group. she and beatrix ran into one another several times in other packs before they wound up in the same pack (through a series of events that culminated in beatrix killing eden's pack priest, diablerizing him, and taking his position).

Beatrix in the center is a Brujah Antitribu; she's the pack priest and also a spying sort. she's a raging carthian, a rabble-rouser, and basically an establishment nightmare. she thinks it's fun to run around, mingle with the kindred of a city and then really fuck with them to turn them against the camarilla and anarchs both. while some sabbat don't believe in the cause entirely, Beatrix actually does; her faith is entirely genuine and that's what makes her so terrifying and influential. she's entirely unapologetic about what she is, too, and has plans to take the fledgelings of the pack up to Montreal to get them rid of any lingering humanity.

Molly Bratovich on the right is a tzimisce, a bratovich who was embraced for being the one to land a killing blow on a werewolf. she's got a lot of flaws that would damn her in the camarilla or even the anarchs, but she fits in just right among the sabbat. she's the abbot of the pack for one reason: she's really good at finding them food and shelter. she's good at doing vampire things but not very good at human interaction for reasons that are obvious.

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i got motivated from that molly picture and actually sketched up her sire, Gulo who isn't too fleshed out, really, beyond having inherited the Bratovich revenant bunch that Molly is from. Gulo probably has a fairly small pack, and is more than likely on one of the more distant paths, almost entirely unconcerned with the typical Tzimisce ideas of self. she can unhinge her jaw like a snake and all of her modifications are entirely because she thinks they're practical. other than that i still need to put thought into her and flesh her out more. i've got that and her name lol

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my favorite thing abt molly as a tzimisce is that she's basically an affront to what everyone thinks about tzimisce in-universe lmfao. she's a hick, she curses every other sentence, she has a gap in her teeth and she's always got mud or dirt on her jeans. her boots? steel toed and big clunky things. she's not refined, she's not an angelic work of horror-art, she's not out here flesh-modding.

the only think she knows about tzimisce culture at large is the propriety of a Domain Owner; she may be an unruly wild sort but when she meets someone of actual power she's actually polite, even if that politeness is rough around the edges. she believes in the Old Way -- three days of shelter, safe, regardless of her opinion on you (with the unspoken rule that you will leave after three nights, and you will not come back unless invited). she's also not super flamboyant, nor is she peacocking around for menacing attention. instead, molly is liable to keep her head down and say nothing at all unless she's asked. she may look pretty harmless, but molly is also the most likely of the pack, i think, to notice your weaknesses. Beatrix and Eden are both good at it in their own way, but Molly is the hunter in a way neither of them ever were. it's been her calling since she was a kid to see the way a person can be herded. it's why she becomes the abbot so quickly. they settle down somewhere to rest and within a few hours at most, molly has the group's meal ready. she's likely to be mistaken for a particularly surly Brujah, and that's something she takes full advantage of, once she learns that she can take advantage of it.

i just like that molly is different in that way. she's very VERY much the result of her revenant family and her upbringing. she's also likely to offend the sensibilities of those sabbat cainites who are obsessed with politics and appearance, just through her mannerisms. i really want to play her somewhere but sabbat games are even harder to find a good foothold in than regular VTM stuff because players can get really kill-happy lol.

i also like Molly because she challenges the view of a Sabbat vampire. she's not sadistic, she's not cruel; she kills with a precision that, again, comes out of being a hunter all her life. she tracks, she corners, she kills. she has no pretensions about being what she is, but also doesn't see it as any higher calling (again, because she was a revenant and then a ghoul). she's a villain, but she isn't a villain who swaggers into the room and pulls out your nails. she's just... there. her intimidation is 4, and that's entirely because she has the-- i mean, the jason voorhees walk, in a way. she's persistent. she's dogged. she will follow your trail to the end of the world if she has to.

plus, y'know... a fuckin' tzimisce revenant? she knows all about the evils of the elders.

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14, 33 and 51 for the otp ask? You can pick who you wanna write about 😁

So I answered this for Beatrix and Molly, because Beatrix is a fuckin' Catharist and has, as I described her to my friend @acheronarcanist , "the most polyamorous tendencies you've ever seen", so despite being in lockstep with Eden she's dabbling in making herself known to the receptive members of the Pack. How do their personalities compliment each other? How do they clash?

Man. Oh my god, what a question lmfaooo. So, Molly compliments Beatrix well by virtue of being quieter, more receptive. She's an observant person, and Beatrix compliments Molly by being bolder, reckless, and just about fearless when it comes to getting into trouble. They both are die-hard Sabbat loyalists, too. While the Black Hand wouldn't have an issue with them, they also definitely would not be able to be recruited into the Black Hand, because Beatrix would laugh in the face of it all (and die for it, i'm sure), while Molly would probably rather be staked than drawn into that bullshit. Their clashing is... often caused by conflicts of interest. Like I said, Beatrix is a Cathari, which means she's more forward with just about everything, and that includes hunting/feeding. Molly is aware that they cannot just go about carving a bloody swathe through wherever they hunt, and she's apt to spend time making sure she can get everyone the food they want. Beatrix? She doesn't care about that. When they fight, it's messy, because the Brujah Antitribu and the Bratovich Tzimisce getting into a physical altercation is the sort of fight that knocks over things, breaks walls, and breaks bones.

Who's the better cook?

Molly, for sure. Even when she was human, when they were both human, if they'd been around at the same time, it'd have been Molly, because Beatrix is the sort of woman to be content with a gas station hotdog with relish and Molly wants to play into the tastes of the person she's feeding. It's actually a highlight of Molly's subservience, in a way; she's happy making a good meal for someone, and even when she gets onto her proper path, that doesn't change.

What’s a non verbal way they say I love you?

Beatrix -- as Molly, Eden, and a few other Cainites can explain with exasperation -- is very fond of headbutts and soft bites. She's very physically affectionate in a way that rides the line of "hey, cut that shit out", but it's always done with this laughing purr in her chest or throat, so she's not doing it to be rude or whatever, and it's evident, even though it annoys the shit out of people.

Molly... is much more ... hard to read in that regard. But it's often in her action. In her close proximity during a troubled moment, but she'll never breach that barrier of touch without being invited; she's always attentive. Her methods of saying she cares are much personalized to the individual -- she's careful. She's always there. A calloused hand on the arm. A quiet murmur in a moment of weakness. A shotgun to the head of someone who gets too aggressive towards her people. She also loves much more "broadly"; her love is not necessarily always romantic. She's a lover in that she cherishes and treasures those Cainites she's close to; each and every one of them gets that truth out of her, that adoration, even if she's not romantically or sexually interested in them.

It comes with being from a big family, I suppose.